IMAP Indexer

A simple cli tool to index IMAP mailboxes into a ZincSearch / Elasticsearch.

Usage

$ imapindexer --help

imapindexer  Copyright (C) 2023  Manuel Bovo
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Index all emails messages of your IMAP mailboxes and store
them into a ZincSearch/Elasticsearch to made them fully searchable.

Usage:
  imapindexer [flags]

Flags:
  -c, --config string          config file (default is $HOME/.imapindexer.yaml)
  -d, --debug                  Enable debug mode
  -h, --help                   help for imapindexer
      --imap.address string    IMAP server address
      --imap.mailbox string    IMAP mailbox pattern (default "INBOX")
      --imap.password string   IMAP password
      --imap.username string   IMAP username
      --indexer.batch int      Number of message to send to ZincSearch in a single batch (default 100)
      --indexer.buffer int     Size of buffer for messages channel (default 100)
      --indexer.workers int    Number of imap workers to use (default 1)
      --zinc.address string    ZincSearch server address
      --zinc.index string      ZincSearch index name (default "mail_index")
      --zinc.password string   ZincSearch password
      --zinc.username string   ZincSearch username

Configuration

The configuration file is a YAML file with the following structure: Default configuration file is $HOME/.imapindexer.yaml or you can specify a custom one with the --config flag.

imap:
  address: imap.server.tld:993
  username: user@server.tld
  password: imap_password
  mailbox: INBOX    # IMAP mailbox pattern (eg: INBOX, INBOX/Spam, INBOX/Spam/* etc)
zinc:
  password: Complexpass#123
  username: admin
  address: http://localhost:4080
  index: mail_index   # ZincSearch index name
indexer:
  batch: 50     # number of message to send to ZincSearch in a single batch
  buffer: 100   # size of buffer for messages channel
  workers: 10   # number of imap threads to use

Build

It uses Task and GoReleaser to build the binary.

$ task build

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license.

Development

You will need a ZincSearch instance running on your machine to run the tests. You can setup local development using task setup

Dependencies

• Task
• GoReleaser
• Go
• pre-commit